NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD. is a company specializing in machinery and materials procurement, with a focus on engineering solutions. The company also holds ISO certification and is involved in public relations and corporate advertising.

On April 1, 2019, we renamed ourselves as “Nippon Steel Corporation” (from Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation), to keep in pace with our advance as a growing global steelmaker with origins in Japan, and as a company incorporating a diversity of DNAs of people and companies. With the aim of securing a position of the best steelmaker with the world-leading capabilities, using our three key drivers of “technology,” “cost,” and “being global,” we have worked hard; 1) to rebuild our profit base by restoring our “strength in manufacturing*1” and enhancing our “strength in sales and marketing*2”; 2) to expand profit of the overseas business; and 3) to promote business innovation, standardization, and workstyle reform. These efforts are, as always, based on all possible measures related to safety, environment, disaster prevention, quality assurance, and compliance.
Our Group’s mainstay steelmaking business is expected to remain subject to an extremely harsh business environment partly due to the COVID-19 crisis, which has further aggravated the unprecedented environment of “higher raw material prices and lower steel product prices.” Despite being in such situation or because of this, we focus on early transition to an optimal production framework in Japan, enhancement of globally-competitive strategic products in terms of quality and quantity, and execution of initiatives to deepen our overseas business in response to the global trend of “local production and local consumption” and “favoring domestic production.” Our intended result is to enhance our profitability. In the post-COVID-19 world, we are determined to restore profitability in the parent steelmaking business whatever the ambient circumstances may be and aim at “becoming the best steelmaker with world-leading capabilities".

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Start of Studies to Shift from Blast Furnace Steelmaking Process to Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Process Nippon Steel Corporation (“Nippon Steel”) has decided to start studies to shift from the blast furnace (BF) steelmaking process to the electric arc furnace (“EAF”) steelmaking process by using the Kyushu Works Yawata Area and the Setouchi Works Hirohata Area as candidate sites. In its “Nippon Steel Carbon Neutral Vision 2050” announced in March 2021, Nippon Steel aims to achieve carbon neutrality by developing three breakthrough technologies: hydrogen injection into BFs; hydrogen direct reduction of iron; and high-grade steel production in large-sized EAFs. As for hydrogen injection into BFs, we began blowing high-temperature hydrogen into a test BF (12m3) at the East Nippon Works Kimitsu Area in May 2022. In the same area, we will begin demonstration using an actual large BF (4,500m3) in operation in January 2026. For the production of hydrogen direct reduced iron, a small shaft furnace will be installed at the Hasaki R&D Center (Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture) of the R&D Laboratories, and tests to reduce low-grade iron ore using hydrogen will begin in fiscal 2025. As for the production of high-grade steel in large EAFs, commercial operation of the new electric furnace in the Setouchi Works Hirohata Area began in October 2022, enabling the world’s first integrated EAF to produce and supply high-grade electrical steel sheets. In addition, a small EAF (10 tons) will be installed at the Hasaki R&D Center, and tests will begin in fiscal 2024.

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